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Amy Pascal on Leaked Emails: ‘Strangely Freeing’

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Jeff Elder

Feb 12, 2015 10:45 am ET

“Tell me they don’t have the emails,” Amy Pascal thought when she learned of the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in December. Then, as her personal correspondence poured out to the public, “There was absolutely nothing I could do about whether I hurt people,” Ms. Pascal recalled Wednesday night in her first public comments on the security breach. “It was horrible. It was also strangely freeing.”

The head of Sony Corp.’s movie business, who said last week she will leave her job in May, spoke at the Women in the World San Francisco event, where she was interviewed by former magazine editor Tina Brown.

“Everyone’s read about everything!” Ms. Pascal protested at the beginning of the discussion in front of several hundred people. “There’s nothing left for me to say.”